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Examples of torpedo tube in a Sentence
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If the cruise missile is wider than the torpedo tube, designers must pick a different launch scheme.
—Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 5 Sep. 2023
Earlier Israeli submarines did not have this larger sail and launched cruise missiles from their torpedo tubes.
—Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 5 Sep. 2023
Strikingly, a torpedo tube on the submarine was open, and a torpedo was half-out of the submarine.
—Daniel Wu, Washington Post, 20 June 2023
In addition to their nuclear armament, each of the subs is equipped with four 533-millimeter torpedo tubes.
—Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 1 May 2023
While the Razorback drone can be launched from a torpedo tube, recovering it after a mission has been a problem.
—Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 8 Nov. 2022
The only thing left of that craft, in the bottom of a strait in the Solomon Islands, was the torpedo tube.
—Frederick Dreier, Outside Online, 30 Mar. 2022
During one event, a submarine launched an unmanned sub through its torpedo tube, Navy officials told reporters during the exercise.
—Andrew Dyer, San Diego Union-Tribune, 12 June 2021
Indonesian naval experts have raised the possibility that as the Nanggala descended on Wednesday, water somehow flooded the submarine, possibly through a pipe or torpedo tube.
—New York Times, 24 Apr. 2021
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Word History
First Known Use
circa 1891, in the meaning defined above
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“Torpedo tube.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/torpedo%20tube. Accessed 8 Jun. 2024.
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